Using an Emotion Regulation Framework to Understand the Role of Temperament and Family Processes in Risk for Adolescent Depressive Disorders

Abstract

Although recent evidence implicates the importance of the family for understanding depressive disorders during adolescence, we still lack a coherent framework for understanding the way in which the myriad of developmental changes occurring within early adolescents and their family environments actually operate to increase adolescents' vulnerability to, or to protect them from, the development of depressive disorders. In this review we propose a framework that places the mechanisms and processes of emotion regulation at the centre of these questions. We argue that emotion regulation can provide an organising rubric under which the role of various factors, such as adolescent and parent temperament and emotion regulation, and parental socialization of child emotion, as well as the interaction amongst these factors, can be understood to account for the role of the family in adolescents' risk for depression. In particular, we posit that adolescent emotion regulation functions as a mechanism through which temperament and family processes interact to increase vulnerability to developing depression.

Impact of parental care on depression and academic performance of adolescent girls from selected schools in a city in South India

“…Studies have reported that 1 year prevalence of depression to be about 4 to 5% and life time prevalence to be 20 to 25 %. 15,16 Sarkar et al reported the prevalence in sub urban India to be 3.13%. 17 National comorbidity survey has reported a prevalence of 12.4% in girls.…”

“…Higher depressive symptoms in girls as seen in the present study can be attributed to female hormones, stressors and social factors. 21 Depression is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease for people aged [15][16][17][18][19]. The increase is attributed to disrupted family structures, female gender, poor inter parental relationships and families' unrealistic educational and vocational aspirations for their children.…”

Childhood Depression As Emerging Public Health Problem: A Systematic Review

“…A careful attitude is strengthened when considering the family environment may represent a critical early contribution to the risk for mood disorders [48][49][50]. Children exposed to chronic adversities early in life are more likely than other children to suffer a variety of mental health problems, as depression [51][52][53][54][55].…”

Regulação emocional em adolescentes e seus pais: Da psicopatologia ao funcionamento ótimo

“…Apesar da capacidade de regulação emocional constituir, sobretudo, objeto de investigação em crianças e adultos, a adolescência constitui uma fase do ciclo de vida de particular importância para avaliação dos seus processos e correlatos (Bariola et al, 2011;Silk et al, 2003;Yap et al, 2007). As diferentes alterações experienciadas no domínio cognitivo, emocional, e neurológico contribuem para uma maior capacidade e necessidade de utilização de estratégias de regulação emocional com eficácia (Jaffe, Gullone, & Hughes, 2010;Steinberg, 2005).…”

“…As diferentes alterações experienciadas no domínio cognitivo, emocional, e neurológico contribuem para uma maior capacidade e necessidade de utilização de estratégias de regulação emocional com eficácia (Jaffe, Gullone, & Hughes, 2010;Steinberg, 2005). Para além disso, neste período os pais constituem-se como importantes agentes de socialização no desenvolvimento emocional dos seus filhos, desempenhando um papel crucial no sentido da sua promoção e facilitação (Bariola et al, 2011;Yap et al, 2007).…”